Father Montfaucon, who, by the command of his Benedictine
superiors, was compelled (see Longueruana, tom. i. p.205) to
execute the laborious edition of St. Chrysostom, in thirteen
volumes in folio (Paris, 1738), amused himself with
extracting from that immense collection of morals some
curious antiquities, which illustrate the manners of the
Theodosian age (see Chrysostom, Opera, tom. xiii. p.
192-l96), and his French Dissertation, in the Memoires de
l'Acad. des Inscriptions, tom. xiii. p. 474-490.